From WBNS-10TV: Columbus To Upgrade Thousands Of Street Crossing Signals Friday, October 29, 2010 The city is starting a project that will upgrade thousands of street crossing signals at intersections throughout Columbus. About 1,000 intersections, including some currently without any street crossing signals, will feature new, energy efficient displays. READ MORE
Archive for October, 2010
Thousands of Street Crossing Signals Being Upgraded
Posted in Pedestrian X-ing, tagged 10tv, auto, cars, crossing signals, pedestrian, safety, sidewalks, street on October 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Local School Districts Pooling Bussing Resources
Posted in Bus X-ing on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t figure out why public school districts should be held responsible for transporting students to private schools, but that’s the law. At least they’re trying to find ways to make the burden less costly. Districts to carpool for busing private-schools students They stand to save by streamlining busing, but ride times might grow Wednesday, [...]
On-Time Performance Improves at Port Columbus
Posted in Airplane X-ing on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 6:00am EDT Airlines improve arrival times at Port Columbus in August Business First of Columbus In its monthly Air Travel Consumer Report, the government said 80.7 percent of commercial flights arrived at Port Columbus on time or less than 15 minutes late. That was an improvement from 74.9 percent in July [...]
COTA Releasing Open Google Transit Data
Posted in Bus X-ing on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
COTA is joining a long list of transit agencies that provide public feeds for transit data via Google Transit. This will allow all you sophisticated, techie, web and software developer types to start writing apps for COTA. These might show scheduled arrival times, the nearest stop location, or directions. Writing these programs is beyond my [...]
COTA Frequent Network Map
Posted in Bus X-ing on October 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In August, Jarrett Walker at Human Transit posted about the need for transit agencies to create transit maps that distinguish between high frequency routes, ordinary routes, and express routes. There have since been a great series of follow-up posts featuring the work of aspiring cartographers. COTA’s system map does a good job of distinguishing the limited service [...]
Bike Users Map Updated for 2010
Posted in Bicycle X-ing, tagged bicycle, bikes, biking, maps, MORPC on October 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
MORPC recently released their Bike Users Map for 2010, which only contains a few updates from last year. It provides an overlay of our road system that shows which roads are safer than others for bike commuters and provides a map of trails and bike paths as well. You can view it here: http://www.morpc.org/bikemaps
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